This article discusses plot points from Bridgerton Finale of season 3.
The future of television is a big, scary question mark in 2024, but if there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s that Netflix is committed to making the most of it. Bridgerton as possible. Just one day after the release of the second half of season 3, it is the most watched series on the platform. A fourth season has been confirmed for 2021 – although showrunner Jess Brownell recently suggested that fans would have to wait about two years to see it. And yet, the season three finale felt like a series finale, involving many of the show’s most compelling storylines.
After a penultimate episode that saw a recovered Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) finally marry Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) while he was still fuming over the discovery that she was Lady Whistledown, the finale brings BridgertonThe huge cast ensemble gathered at a fabulously gaudy party thrown by Penelope’s ridiculous sisters. Suddenly, Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) bursts in to announce that she has deduced Whistledown’s identity—and demands that the woman with the poisonous quill pen reveal herself to everyone in Mayfair. So Penelope does. “No one has ever taken any part of me seriously,” she explains in an emotional monologue. But the column gave him power. “Gossip is information. It creates bonds.”
And so, the Queen – who dedicated three seasons to tracking down her enemy – is satisfied. “What is life without a little gossip?” she laughs. The same goes for Colin, who tells Penelope that he now understands that “there is no separating you from Whistledown” and abruptly abandons his need to be the genius writer at the wedding. As for the rest of society, families whose darkest secrets have been revealed by Whistledown, they barely seem to care. A minute after Penelope’s speech, they dance again. This all seems a little unlikely — a moment of crisis smoothed over to give the couple shippers call Polin an unambiguously happy ending. What’s more worrying, though, is what the release of Whistledown could mean for future seasons of Bridgerton. After all, what’s a coming-out season without a Regency Gossip Girl to narrate it?
When Penelope retires from Whistledown, in the episode’s final scene, she writes: “I hope, dear reader, you continue to enjoy it. [my future] with me as we begin the next part of our journey.” But it’s not just Polin’s storyline that the season resolves. The Whistledown intrigue has been a crucial ingredient in the series’ love potion since the beginning, when the author’s identity was still a mystery to viewers, and also after we learned the secret at the end of Season 1 and were able to follow the adventures. Penelope’s editorials, fingers crossed that she wouldn’t be discovered. Meanwhile, the hunt for Whistledown took up the majority – and by far the funniest moments – of Queen Charlotte’s screen time, outside of her eponymous spin-off.
It’s true that Bridgerton is based (albeit increasingly loosely) on a series of books by Julia Quinn, and that Penelope is publicly unmasked as Whistledown halfway through its eight volumes. And it’s true that the Season 3 finale left viewers with several emerging storylines to look forward to in Season 4: Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) has discovered he likes both men and women, and it seems fair to predict that his foray into polyamory is fair. . start. Judging by the way newlywed Francesca (Hanna Dodd) looks at her husband John Stirling’s (Victor Alli) cousin – and the couple’s future housemate – Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza), Benedict may not be the only bi Bridgerton. Then there’s matriarch Violet (Ruth Gemmell), whose romance with Marcus Anderson (Daniel Francis) may finally begin in earnest now that Marcus and his sister, Violet’s best friend Lady Danbury (Adjoa Andoh), have reconciled after years of tension.
However, if Whistledown really is dead, never to be revived by some shiny new stranger (see: Tavi Gevinson’s character in gossip Girl 2.0), then Bridgerton it won’t have any amusing narration from Julie Andrews to structure it, and even in probable event that Penelope continues to write under her own name, no anonymous scandal sheet to torment Mayfair with impunity. Worst of all, Penelope could be doomed to the same yesterday’s news status that previous heroines now occupy. (Remember Daphne?) If a new Bridgerton sibling romance every season is the series’ gimmick, then Penelope has proven to be its soul — a vividly realistic protagonist whose quick-witted alter ego has tied each fairytale courtship to earth. Bridgerton may find a way to continue without Lady Whistledown, but if it succeeds, it will be a totally different show.
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